Seeing “eating nails”
in your dream

If a person eats such a dove or owns it, it means he will have some business to do with a woman.

The one who eats them cooked, fried or boiled in his dream, will acquired riches and prosperity.

The Imaam said to the people around him: “Catch him and hand him over to the authorities for he digs up graves and steals the kafn from the dead!” he pleaded: “My Lord, I sincerely repent to Allah before you!” He pleaded: “My Lord, I sincerely repent to Allah before you! I promise never to commit this since again all my life!” Thus he was not handed over to the authorities, but was released.

A person asked Ibn Sirin (RA): “What is your opinion regarding a person who had dreamed that he borke an egg and ate its white only and not its yolk?” The Imaam said: “Bring me the man who had seen the dream so that he personally relates to me his dream. I will answer him.” The man said. “No, do answer me: I will convey your interpretation to him”. The Imaam refused. He insisted several times and the Imaam refused the same number of times, finally he said under Oath: “My Lord, By Allah, it is I who had seen the dream”.

He will become prosperous.

If Prophet Muhammad (Sallallaahu-Alayhi-wasallam) is seen eating (something) it means he is urging his Ummah to discharge Za-kaah.

• Going to a grave and digging the earth with one’s nails or trying to unearth the dead: Will probe the life of the dead dwelling in that grave to follow his pattern.

• Trying to unearth one’s body: The dreamer is a materialist, running after worldly matters, and will succeed only if he managed to disinter the corpse.

• An animal digging the earth or soil in one’s yard with its pawns or hooves: Beware of an enemy.

• Digging with one’s nails in an inappropriate place: The dreamer is after something very difficult.

• Digging a grave or a pit for oneself or somebody else:  (1) Will build a house. 
(2) Will settle in that area.

• Digging a grave on a surface: Will live long.

• Digging in a grave with one’s nails to find a living person emerging from it: Welfare and joy, especially if the dreamer is a virtuous person. He would have the best of two worlds.

Digging symbolizes sly backbiting, wasted speech, or simple endeavours.
The gravedigger is a prestigious and awesome man.

• Digging in the grave of a holy man with one’s nails: The dreamer is
endeavouring to follow the path of the deceased.

• Digging in the grave of the Muslims Prophet Muhammad with one’s nails: The dreamer will refresh his memory about the Sunnah 
(Muhammad’s Tradition) and will benefit many people. If he reaches the body it is a bad omen. If he breaks any of the Prophet’s limbs, he will be lost and turn heretic.

(Nail) In a dream, a claw signifies victory over one's enemy, as it provides a weapon, protection and a tool for a bird.

• Eating frog meat: Benefit from some friends.

• Eating crabmeat: Financial benefits and news from a distant land.

• Eating cooked ram meat: Fertility and abundance. Fat meat is better than lean.

• Eating raw ram meat: Absence.

• Eating dog meat: Will triumph over your enemy and take a bite at his money.

• Eating venison  (deer flesh): Will get money from a pretty woman.

• Eating zebra meat or drinking zebra milk: Will acquire slaves or servants from a noble man.

• Eating cat meat: Will learn magic.

• Acquiring cat meat or grease: Will get money from a thief or obtain something stolen anyway.

• Eating donkey meat: Will earn money without a partner.

• Eating bread without food: The dreamer will be sick without anybody looking after him and will die lonely.

• Eating bread with honey: Will seek knowledge and wisdom and be better off, because honey indicates good knowledge and bread comfortable living.

• Eating bread and salt: Contentment.

• Eating vinegar with bread: Long life.

• Eating thin  (unleavened) bread: Contradictory interpretations like short life, few gains, and abundance.

• Unfinished bread: Strong fever, as this bread has to go back to the oven for completion.

• Hot white wheat bread: Children.

• Eating fox meat: Will fall ill and recover very fast.

• Eating duck meat: Will receive money from slave women or servants or will be blessed with a rich woman.

• Eating falcon meat: Money from the king or any supreme authority.

• Vulture meat: Money and influence.

• Eating tortoise meat: Money and knowledge.

• Piercing beautifully shaped and lined up pearls: Will interpret the Holy Quran in a correct manner.

• Piercing a pearl with a wooden nail: Will make love to a prohibited relative.
A man told Ibn Siren he dreamed that he was piercing a pearl.
“Do you know your mother?” the interpreter asked.
“No, she was taken captive when I was a small child.”
“Have you recently bought a slave?”
“Yes.”
“Do you sleep with her?”
“Yes.”
“Then fear God, for she is that mother.”

• Finding a big pearl: Plenty of money.

Eating a chicken in a dream means receiving benefits from a woman. Meat in a dream also means forbearance and patience for someone who is hot tempered, or who gets angry easily. Eating meat in a dream also could mean recovering from an illness, an end to one's distress, trouble and adversities. Eating the meat of an unlawful animal in a dream means receiving unlawful money. Eating a suspicious meat in a dream means earning suspicious money, or having an illegitimate marriage. Eating fowls meat in a dream means profits for a traveller.

(Flesh; Knowledge; Money; Substance; Wealth) Cooked meat in a dream means money. Eating raw meat in a dream means illness and pain. Eating raw meat in a dream also may mean benefits. Seeing raw meat and not eating from it in a dream could have adverse meaning. Eating cooked meat in a dream means increase in one's wealth. Eating a meat dish with an old man in a dream means becoming renowned, or entering the inner circle of a governor. Buying meat from the butcher in a dream means adversities. Tender meat in a dream mean death or backbiting.

• Eating one’s own tongue:  (1) The dreamer is the silent, concealing, and self-restrained type. 
(2) The dreamer’s eloquence will help him.
To come back to the general interpretation:

• A woman eating her own flesh: Will commit adultery.

• A lady eating another woman’s flesh: Will have a lesbian experience with her, or each of them will try to overpower the other physically or otherwise.

• Eating one’s own flesh: Abundance and tremendous power are in store.

• Eating the flesh of a tortured person  (crucified, hung, et cetera): Will obtain money from a wanted individual. It could also mean redemption and/or vengeance.

• Eating the flesh of one’s enemy: Will triumph over him.

• Eating the flesh of a dead person: Will speak ill of the dead, in view of a verse in the Holy Quran that says: “O ye who believe! Shun much suspicion; for lo! some suspicion is a sin. And spy not, neither backbite one another. Would one of you like to eat the flesh of his dead brother? …” 
(“Al-Hujurat” [The Private Apartments], verse 12.)

(Clippers; Shears) In a dream, scissors mean slander and causing harm to someone's reputation without regard for the truth. Scissors in a dream also represent a legal guardian who discerns between true and false. Holding a pair of scissors in a dream means delivering a brother for one's first born son, or having two businesses feeding one another, unless if one is unmarried, then holding a pair of scissors, or a nail clipper in a dream means getting married.

Narrated Ibn 'Umar: I heard Prophet Muhammad (Sallallaahu-Alayhi-wasallam) saying, "While I was sleeping, I was given a bowl full of milk (in a dream), and I drank of it to my fill until I noticed its wetness coming out of my nails, and then I gave the rest of it to 'Umar." They (the people) asked, "What have you interpreted (about the dream)? O Prophet Muhammad?" He said, "(It is Religious) knowledge." (Bukhari)